WotC Why WotC SHOULD Make A New Setting

[Frozen_Heart]

Anyway, the point is D&D needs less settings, not more.

Which settings would you choose to remain as core settings? Which would you axe?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That’s tiny! On the small size even for a town (Reigate, a mid sized town, has a population of 150,000). City status isn’t directly liked to size, but when we talk about urban we generally mean populations in at least 6 digits!

Who's "we?"

And again, urban fantasy as a genre is largely about magical stuff in a contemporary setting. The name is probably misleading, as the books that inspired True Blood fit most of the same criteria but mostly revolve around small towns in the US South.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Which settings would you choose to remain as core settings? Which would you axe?

I'd keep one setting of each type.

We don't need two kitchen sink settings, by definition, so either I'd merge them onto the single planet or I'd kill off either Greyhawk or the Forgotten Realms.

Honestly, as suggested upthread, I might be inclined to put as many existing WotC settings onto a single planet, just separated by geography, much like Paizo has done with their various flavors of fantasy.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The name is probably misleading, as the books that inspired True Blood fit most of the same criteria but mostly revolve around small towns in the US South

I’ve read some of those, and the setting might as well be another world with regards to how strange it seems to me. But they fall outside what I would consider urban fantasy in any case. I would call them American Gothic.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

All of their old settings, despite having some great ideas, feel a bit dated because our understanding of what kinds of internal consistency a setting needs have changed over the decades. People demand more 'here' and insist on less 'there' now. So a fresh "reboot" with new talent and new ideas would be a welcome change.

...what does the bolded even mean?

 

[Scribe]

...what does the bolded even mean?

I assume it means a focusnon things more relevant to play, and perhaps less on walls of text that never matter.

 

[mamba]

...what does the bolded even mean?

that’s neither here nor there

 

[CreamCloud0]

...what does the bolded even mean?

i assuming it means the priorities of what people desire to be focused on and fleshed out or how they do that in setting books has changed to what previous edition's players used to value being focused on.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I assume it means a focusnon things more relevant to play, and perhaps less on walls of text that never matter.

Listen, if you aren't spending two pages, with a chart, discussing historical ethnic migration patterns on Oerth, are you even publishing an adventure setting?

 

[SkidAce]

Listen, if you aren't spending two pages, with a chart, discussing historical ethnic migration patterns on Oerth, are you even publishing an adventure setting?

during my d20 phase (3e/3.5/Pathfinder) I created one of those for my home campaign.

Too little juice for the squeeze, even though it was fun. Did give me an idea of who's ruins were where....